Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer.
12 Facts About Donella Meadows
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Donella Meadows is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer.
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Donella Meadows taught at Dartmouth College for 29 years, beginning in 1972.
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Donella Meadows was honored both as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment and as a MacArthur Fellow.
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Donella Meadows received the Walter C Paine Science Education Award in 1990.
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Donella Meadows wrote "The Global Citizen," a weekly column on world events from a systems point of view.
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Donella Meadows's work is recognized as a formative influence on hundreds of other academic studies, government policy initiatives, and international agreements.
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The award is given to an outstanding individual who has created actions in a global framework toward the sustainability goals Donella Meadows expressed in her writings.
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In 1972, Donella Meadows was on the MIT team that produced the global computer model "World3" for the Club of Rome, providing the basis for The Limits to Growth.
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Donella Meadows founded the Sustainability Institute in 1996, which combined research in global systems with practical demonstrations of sustainable living, including the development of a cohousing and organic farm at Cobb Hill in Hartland, Vermont.
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Donella Meadows published Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, one of her best-known essays, in 1999.
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Donella Meadows died of cerebral meningitis in 2001 at the age of 59.